Buccaneers, Explorers and Settlers

British Enterprise and Encounters in the Pacific, 1670-1800

Glyndwr Williams

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000938425
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

Buccaneers, Explorers and Settlers studies how during 'the long 18th century' British incursions into the Pacific transformed Europe's knowledge of that great ocean. Buccaneers devastated Spanish settlements and shipping in the South Sea, and the accounts by Dampier and his companions of their exploits became best-sellers. Anson's circumnavigation carried on the tradition of commerce-raiding, but it represented the beginnings of a more official interest in the Pacific and its resources. Later in the 18th century the hopes of speculative geographers that unknown continents and sea-passages existed in the Pacific prompted a series of expeditions by Cook and his contemporaries. New peoples were discovered as well as new lands, and the voyages led to changing perceptions of their lifestyles. Exploration was followed by trade and settlement in which Cook's associates such as Banks played a leading part. Before the end of the century there were British settlements in New South Wales, Nootka Sound had become a centre of international dispute, and across the Pacific traders, whalers and missionaries were following the tracks of the explorers.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• I ‘The inexhaustible fountain of gold’: English projects and ventures in the South Seas, 1670-1750 Perspectives of Empire: Essays presented to Gerald S. Graham, ed. John E. Flint and Glyndwr Williams. London: Pearson Education Ltd., 1973
• II Buccaneers, castaways, and satirists: the South Seas in the English consciousness before 1750 The South Pacific in the Eighteenth Century: Narratives and Myths. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol. 18, n.s., 3. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994
• III Anson at Canton, 1743: ‘A little secret history’ The European Outthrust and Encounter. The First Phase c.1400—c.1700: Essays in Tribute to David Beers Quinn on his 85th Birthday, ed. Cecil H. Clough and P.E.H. Hair. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1994
• IV George Anson’s Voyage Round the World: the making of a best-seller Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. 64, No. 2. Lawrenceville, NJ, 2003
• V The beginnings of Britain’s exploration of the Pacific Ocean in the eighteenth-century (with Alan Frost) The Mariner’s Mirror, Vol. 83, No. 4. London, 1997
• VI ‘To make discoveries of countries hitherto unknown’: the Admiralty and Pacific exploration in the eighteenth century The Mariner's Mirror, Vol. 82, No. 1. London, 1996
• VII The Endeavour voyage: a coincidence of motives Science and Exploration in the Pacific: European Voyages to the Southern Oceans in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Margarette Lincoln. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 1998
• VIII Tupaia: Polynesian warrior, navigator, high priest - and artist The Global Eighteenth Century, ed. Felicity A. Nussbaum. Baltimore, MD and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003
• IX ‘Far more happier than we Europeans’: reactions to the Australian Aborigines on Cook’s voyage Historical Studies, Vol. 19, No. 77. Melbourne, 1981
• X The English and Aborigines: first contacts Previously published in History Today, Vol. 38. London, 1988, pp. 33-39
• XI The First Fleet and after: expectation and reality Interpreting Australia: British Perceptions of Australia since 1770, ed. Tony Delamothe and Carl Bridge. London: The Sir Robert Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 1988
• XII Seamen and philosophers in the South Seas in the age of Captain Cook The Eva G..R. Taylor Lecture for 1978. The Mariner’s Mirror, Vol. 65. London, 1979
• XIII Explorers and geographers: an uneasy alliance in the eighteenth-century exploration of the Pacific Dangerous Liaisons: Essays in Honour of Greg Dening, ed. Donna Merwick. Melbourne: The University of Melbourne, 1994
• XIV An eighteenth-century Spanish investigation into the apocryphal voyage of Admiral Fonte Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 30, No. 4. Berkeley, CA, 1961
• XV Myth and reality: James Cook and the theoretical geography of Northwest America Captain James Cook and His Times, ed. Robin Fisher and Hugh Johnston. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1979
• XVI Myth and reality: the theoretical geography of Northwest America from Cook to Vancouver From Maps to Metaphors: The Pacific World of George Vancouver, ed. Robin Fisher and Hugh Johnston. Vancouver: University of British Columbia, 1993
• XVII ‘The common center of we discoverers’: Sir Joseph Banks, exploration and empire in the late eighteenth century Sir Joseph Banks: A Global Perspective, ed. R.E.R. Banks et al. Kew: The Royal Botanic Gardens, 1994
• Index